The Civilian Welfare Foundation (CWF), a body working for the rights of disabled people and para-athletes, on Friday pleaded to the West Bengal government and the country's sports bodies to probe the "harsh treatment" meted out to paralympic athletes at the three-day national meet in Uttar Pradesh....
An immigration officer has been suspended for alleged verbal sexual harassment of a woman passenger who took a flight to Hong Kong on March 18 from Delhi, a home ministry official said on Friday....
The prosecution of the German city of Dusseldorf announced on Friday that the co-pilot, who allegedly crashed the Germanwings plane into a mountainside in the French Alps deliberately, had a medical leave note for the day of the flight, which he hid from the company....
A court in West Bengal's Nadia district on Friday sent a Bangladeshi national, arrested in connection with the gang rape of a nun inside a convent in Ranaghat, to 14 days police custody....
President Pranab Mukherjee's gesture to personally visit Atal Bihari Vajpayee to hand over the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, to the ailing former prime minister on Friday evening, has been widely welcomed....
In a string of ambassadorial appointments, the government has named new envoys for South Korea, the Netherlands, Peru and Oman....
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the media that Mani has in a letter to him sought George's removal as the chief whip and also barring him from attending the liaison committee meetings of the United Democratic Front....
The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight 4U9525, who appeared to have deliberately crashed the plane in the French Alps, had passed all tests set by parent company Lufthansa, a spokesman told Xinhua news agency on Friday and declined to comment on his metal condition....
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan moved an application to ban the media during the recording of his statement in a 2002 hit-and-run case in a sessions court here on Friday but it was rejected....
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was on Friday conferred the Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest civilian honour, by President Pranab Mukherjee at a brief ceremony at his home....
